Friday, July 11, 2014

Drivetrain Overhaul

For a while now there's been a slight crunching, grinding noise coming from the offside area when driving along, nothing too bad just one of those noises that leads you to think there's something not quite right that will need fixing someday. However when the car started pulling to the left while driving and then pulling sharply to the right when braking recently, I concluded that 'someday' had finally arrived.

Apart from the pot joints, I decided to take the whole drivetrain out along with the brake calipers to see what was going on and hopefully learn a few things along the way.

Working when I was able with an hour here and an hour there the overhaul took about 3 weeks in total to complete, starting on July 11th and going on until August 2nd. So to avoid a gigantic singular post, I split the work up into 7 different pages that detail each area.

One Problem, Two Symptoms, Three Weeks
If you just skipped down the titles and read the summaries (I can't blame you as I would probably do the same) you don't really get a sense of the amount of work that went in to make the transformation possible, but believe me, there was loads of it and very enjoyable work it was to.

So go on, scroll back up and read all about the triumphs and the disasters that were encountered along the way and watch how we get from this ...